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The Final Fight~~~House of Drift Finale… I doubt it

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I loved Irwindale as a whole but I struggled with it as a photographer.

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This being my first time to this event and possibly last time at this event, it was hard for me to adapt to the media’s limitations.

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For this event we only had two spots where you were able to shoot completely open with no fence or a hole in the fence, just a wide open spot.

Normally I do media at PARC or Evergreen speedway and there is nothing in the way to shoot the cars and really not that many limitations even at FD Seattle. Continue reading →

Hankook Tire Wins 2015 Formula Drift Pro, World Series And Tire Cup Championships

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Wayne, NJ – October 12, 2015 – Hankook Tire driver Fredric Aasbo has been crowned the 2015 Formula Drift Pro and World Series Champion following this past weekend’s final round At Irwindale Speedway.  Hankook drivers Ken Gushi and Chris Forsberg finished the season second and third place overall.  Aasbo’s Pro and World series championships are the his first of his Formula Drift racing career.

Aasbo held the Pro Series points lead going into the seventh and final round of the Formula Drift season, with fellow Hankook Tire driver Ken Gushi just behind him in second place and Chris Forsberg in fourth overall.  Qualifying in fifth position in his Hankook Tire/Rockstar Energy Scion tC, Aasbo was pitted against Kristaps Bluss in the Top 32 round.  Things got dicey when Bluss spun out on the pair’s second run, causing Aasbo to make contact with Bluss.  But in the end it didn’t matter, Aasbo went on to dominate at Irwindale ultimately winning the final race of the year with a first place finish.  Hankook Tire drivers Ken Gushi and Forest Wang rounded out the winner’s podium at Irwindale in second and third place. Continue reading →

Formula DRIFT PRO 2 Irwindale Speedway Results; Alex Heilbrunn Wins the PRO 2 Championship

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Long Beach, Calif. – October 9, 2015 – Formula DRIFT PRO 2 completed the final event of the 2015 season at Irwindale Speedway. Juha Rintanen in the Juha Rintanen Motorsports Nissan S14 takes the event victory while Alex Heilbrunn in the IMR BMW 3-Series wins the PRO 2 championship.

The PRO 2 finals provided an action packed evening for the Friday night crowd. Rintanen, the number one qualifier, met Cameron Moore in the final battle. Rintanen out drove his opponent to take his first PRO 2 victory and move up to third in the overall PRO 2 standings.

“I’m so excited as we had so many troubles over the past two years here in Formula DRIFT PRO 2,” said Juha Rintanen, winner of Round 4 of 4 events of the PRO 2 Championship. “We stayed here for two months and tuned the car better so it turned out for the best.”

The top eight finishers in PRO 2 will earn or renew their Formula DRIFT Pro license next season.
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